Raffaello (1483-1520) Madonna Sistina (Sistine Madonna) 1512–1513 Oil on canvas, 265.5 x 201 cm Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden Raphael originally created the Sistine Madonna on behalf of Pope Julius II for the high altar of the monastery church of San Sisto…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Incoronazione della Vergine, detta Pala Oddi (Crowning of the Virgin, called Oddi Altarpiece) 1502–1504 Tempera grassa on wood transferred to canvas, 272 x 165 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano The Crowning of the Virgin was painted for the altar of…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Pietà c.1503–1505 Oil on poplar panel, 23.6 x 28.8 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston This panel was originally part of the base (predella) of the Colonna Altarpiece (Pala Colonna). Not satisfied with a single Raphael painting, Isabella Stewart Gardner…
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Self-Portrait 1542–1543 Coloured chalk, pen and gold on paper, 32 x 26 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of Henry VIII of England c.1537 Oil on panel, 28 x 20 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid Portraiture was the most popular genre in sixteenth-century England, and indeed one of the few available to artists following the…
Cézanne, Paul (1839-1906) Portrait de l’artiste au fond rose (Self-Portrait with Pink Background) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 66 x 55.2 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) Ecce Homo 1547 Oil on slate, 69 x 56 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid Although we do not know when Titian first treated this subject, it was probably in 1535, when he painted a Christ for Federico Gonzaga following a…
Zurbarán, Francisco de (1598-1664) Cristo crucificado, con un pintor (The Crucified Christ with a Painter) c.1650 Oil on canvas, 105 x 84 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid A painter devoutly contemplates the almost-sculptural figure of Christ on the Cross, which stands…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Émile Zola 1868 Oil on canvas, 146 x 114 cm Musée d’Orsay, Paris Emile Zola, Cézanne‘s boyhood friend, showed an early interest in painting. He was particularly interested in the artists rejected by the official critics. In 1866,…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Au café (At the café) 1878 Pastel on canvas, 77 x 83 cm Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur This is the left side of a larger painting. The right half, titled Coin d’un café-concert, is in the National Gallery, London. Right…